Camera attachment.



s. E. MOINE.

CAMERA ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED 00121, 1911.

1,062,241 Pat ntedMay 20, 1913.

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S. E. MOINE.

CAMERA ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED OUT. 21, 19-11.

Patented May 20, 1913.

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SELEST E. MOINE, OF TULIA, TEXAS.

CAMERA ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 20, 1913.

Application filed October 21, 1911. Serial No. 655,936.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SnLEsr E. MOINE, citizen of the United States,residing at T'ulia, in the county of Swisher and State of Texas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Camera Attachments, ofwhich the following is a specification. i

This invention relates to improvements in cameras, more particularly thelarger class of portrait cameras, and has for its object to provide asimply constructed attachment whereby a. portion only of the plate isexposed to receive an impression and then another portion of the plateexposed to re ceive another impression either of the same or anothersubject, and so on consecutively until the whole surface of the plate iscovered with distinct and independent impressions, the attachment beingso arranged that any portion of the plate may be exposed and impressionsof any size made thereon without interference and with the bacl groundblended between the subjects.

\Vith this and other objects in view, the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction as hereafter shown and described, andthen specifically pointed out in the claims. 1

The improved attachment may be applied without material structuralchange to any of the various makes of portrait cameras, and it is notdesired therefore to limit the invention to any specific construction ofcamera, but for the purpose of illustration the improved device is shownapplied to a conventional camera, and in the drawings employed toillustrate the invention: Figure 1 is a' side elevation of aconventional camera and its supporting base with the improvementapplied, with the hood or shield in section; Fig. 2 is a plan view ofthe same without the hood; Fig. 3 is an enlarged front elevation of theimproved attachment; Fig. 4 is a section on the line of Fig. 3; Fig. 5is a section on the line 5.-5 of Fig. 4; Figs. 6 and 7 are perspectiveviews of the interchangeable cutoff slides; F ig. 8 is a sectionaldetail of the adjusting rod tension device; Figs. 9 and 10 are views ofthe horizontally movable blending plates; Figs. 11, 12, 13 and 14 areperspective views of various forms of horizontally movable blendingplates.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

The body of the camera is represented conventionally at 10 supportedadjustably upon a base 11. The improved attachment comprises a casing12, open at front and rear and with vertical guideways 13-14 next to thefront and rear faces. The cas- 111g 12 is provided with a slot in theupper side communicatingv with the guideways 13, while the upper side ofthe casing is also provided at its front with an opening opposite theguideways 14 so that cut-off slides 1516 may be inserted into andremoved from the guideways. The cutoff slides 1516 are providedrespectively with openings 1718, preferably in elliptical form and ofdifferent sizes, the cut-0E slides being interchangeable, as hereafterexplained. The opening in the upper side of the casing 12 for thecut-off slide 16, is located opposite the inner portion of the guideway14, and slidably disposed in the guideway in advance of the slide 16 isa relatively short blending plate 21, theupper edge of this plate beingprovided with serrations to produce the usual blending effect, ashereafter explalned- The plate 21 is provided with a depending tail 22which extends through the opening 19 of the casing and is provided witha transverse slot 23 near its lower end. Slidable in the guideway 14next in advance of the plate 21, is another blending plate 24 having theusual serrations in its upper edge and provided with a depending tail 25having a transverse slot 26 near its lower end. Rigidly connected byrivets or other suitable fastening devices 27 to the tail portion 25 ofthe plate 24, is another tail member 28 having a blending plate 29 atits upper end, the latter being disposed opposite the plate 24 and withserrations in its upper edge. The plate 29 and its tail member 28 arepreferably formed of resilient material so that the tail 28 may be bentoutwardly as indicated in Fig. 11 and by dotted lines in Fig. 4 to spacethe serrated edge of the plate 29 at any required distance forwarclly ofthe plate 24, to produce variations in the blending effect, as hereafterexplained. Any suitable means may be employed for holding the tailmember 28 in position in advance of the plate 24, but preferably a wedgeblock 31 will be provided and adapted to be forced between the two tailmem bers 25 and 28 as shown in Fig. 11 and thus holding the members intheir proper relative position. The block 31 is preferably provided witha short chain 32 for coupling it to the tail member 25 to prevent itsbecoining displaced and lost when not in use.

Slidably disposed through the openings in the sides of the casing 12 aretwo other relatively long blending plates 33-34 having intermediateopenings with the edges of the openings serrated as representedrespectively at 3536. The plate 33 is provided at one end with avertical slot 37 while the plate 34 is provided at the opposite end witha similar vertical slot 38. The terminal of the plate 33 in which theslot 37 is located, is preferably ofiset laterally toward the front ofthe casing, while the portion of the plate 34 which contains the slot38, is likewise preterably offset laterally toward the:

rear of the casing, as represented more clearly in .Fig. 5, the objectto be hereafter explained. j

The plates 2124 are independently slidable verticallywithin theguideways', while the horizontal blending plates 3334 arelikewiseindependently slidable transversely of the casing. By thisarrangement also it will be obvious that by employing cut-0t? slideshaving different sized openings the upper portion of the subject may becut off at any desired. point, and then by adjusting the blendingplates, the lower and side por tions of the subject may be cut oil andthe outlines blended through the action of By this ar v the serrationsin the edges. rangement also it Wlll be obvious that by adjusting thevarious cut-ofi? slides and blending plates any desired portion of theopening through the cut-off slide 15 or 16 which may fort-he time beingbe located in the guideway 14, may be exposed, while the remainingportions are obscured, thus controlling the admission of light andpermitting the light to passthrough only a portion of the casing. Bythis arrangement also the opening for the light may be located at anydesired point opposite the opening of the casing. of the sensitizedplate except the portion that it is desired to expose, are covered andprotected, and the exposure located at any desired point.

By adjusting the various slides and plates to expose a relatively smallportion of the subject and correspondingly focusing the lens, acorrespondingly small image may be made, or the various slides andplates adjusted and the lens focused to produce a larger image close toa smaller image and blending the defininglines of the images.

Thus the pictures can be made large or small or all of the same size andlocated at any point desired upon the sensitized plate.

By this arrangement also a large impression of a subject may be madeandthen a.

Thus all portions plurality of small impressions printed around thelarger one and without the usual blending between the pictures.

Any suitable means may be employed for supporting the casing 12 and itsattachments from the camera stand, but an approved arrangement is showncomprislng a head member 40 to which the casing 12 is attached, andextending from each side of the head are supporting rails or framemembers 41 suitably braced from the head and bearing upon opposite sidesof the base 11 of the camera and adjustably clamped thereto as shown at42. By this means the casing 12 and its head may be adjusted to anysuitable extent relative to the lens portion of the camera.

A suitable mechanism whereby the operator can expeditiously actuate thevarious blending plates from his position at the rear of the cameraforms a part of the improved device, and will now be described.

Connected. to the rails 41 are guides 43.

Mounted for rotation through each set of the guides at each side are tworods 4445, the rods being formed respectively with lat eral ofi'sets orcrank arms 4647 for engaging in the slots of the blending plates so thatthe rotation of the rods will cause the reciprocal movement of theplates. The rods are provided at their rear ends with turn buttons 50 tofacilitate their rotation. The rods may be connected in any desiredorder with the plates, but for the purpose of illustration the rod 44 atone side of the camera is shown connected by its crank arm 46 to theslot of the vertically movable blending plate 21, while the rod 45 atthe same side of the camera is shown connected by its arm 47 with theslot of the horizon tally movable blending plate 33 and the rod 44 atthe opposite side of the camera is con nected by its arm 46 with theslot of the vertically movable blending plate 24 while the rod 45 at thesame side of the camera is connected by its arm 47 to the slot of thehorizontally movable blending plate 34. By this simple means it will'beobvious that .the blending platesmay be adjusted to any required extentby simply rotating the rods by the finger and thumb of the operatorapplied to the turn buttons at their ends, and thus adjusting the platesto any required extent to produceany required size of opening and at anydesired point within the .range of the opening in the slide 15 or 16 asthe case may be.

Connected respectively to the rods 4445 at each side of the camera aretwo blocks 4849 and each pair of blocks is provided with a clamp screw50 extending through the adjacent rail 41 to enable the blocks to beclamped upon the rods and thus produce sufiicient tension to hold themat any re quired point of adjustment, While at the same time permittingthem to be rotated when suflicient force is applied to the turn buttons.By this means the rods will not become accidentally displaced when inuse.

The blending plates may be formed with any desired outline and with orwithout the serrations so that the outlines of the subject may beblended or not as desired. It will be noted that the slides 15-16 are ofthe same size, hence can be transposed or interchanged at will.

Generally the lower portions and sides only of the subject are blended,but if it is desired to produce the blending effect at the upper portionof the subject, a plate 21 formed as shown in Fig. 14 will be employed.If it is desired to produce an upwardly curving blending effect, theplate shown in Fig. 13 will be used.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be inexpensivelymanufactured and applied without material structural change to a cameraand Without interfering with the ordinary use of the camera.

Having thus described theinvention, what is claimed as new is:

1. An attachment for a cameracomprising a casing, interchangeablecut-off slides carried by said casing and spaced apart and havingopenings of varying areas to provide means for increasing or decreasingthe exposed area, coacting blending plates having recesses and mountedfor independent movement in one direction through the easing and acrossthe openings of the cut-off slides, and another coacting blending platehaving recesses and mounted for independent movement in the oppositedirection and across the openings of the cut-off slides.

2. In an attachment for cameras, a casing, a plurality of blendingplates carried by said casing and superimposed and having recesses forcontrolling the exposed area, a cut-off slide having an opening anddetach ably disposed in said casing, and means for independentlyoperating said blending plates.

3. In an attachment for a camera, a casing open at the front and rear,means for adjustably coupling said casing to a camera, blending plateshaving recesses for controlling the exposed area and independentlymovable in one direction through the casing, and other plates havingrecesses and inde' pendently movable in the reverse direction throughthe casing.

4. The combination with a casing open at the front and rear, a cut-olfslide having an opening and detachably disposed in said casing, aplurality of blending plates havingv recesses for disclosing the exposedarea and superimposed and independently movable through said casing, anda plurality of rods mounted for rotation and each connected to one ofsaid blending plates to adjust the same.

5. The combination with a casing open at the front and rear, of aplurality of blending plates superimposed and independently movablethrough said casing, frame members connected to said casing and adaptedto be adjustably clamped to a camera, and a plurality of rods mountedfor rotation upon said frame members, and means for connecting said rodsrespectively to said blending plates.

6. The combination with a casing open at the front and rear, a pluralityof blending plates superimposed and independently movable through saidcasing, frame members connected to said casing and adapted to beconnected to a camera, a plurality of rods mounted for rotation uponsaid frame members and connected respectively to one of said blendingplates, and a tension device applied to said rods.

7. The combination With a camera of an attachment therefor formed of aplurality of blending plates, and means for independently adjusting saidplates to produce an opening of any required size and located at anyrequired point relative to the lens members of the camera to permit anyportion of the plate to be exposed, and to out off the light from allother portions.

8. A shut-off blending plate for a camera adapted for movementtransversely of the same, a supplemental blending plate connected tosaid shut-off blending plate and yieldably supported thereon, and meansfor spacing said supplemental blending plate from the shut-oif plate.

9. A shut-off blending plate for a camera adapted for movementtransversely of said camera, a supplemental plate connected to saidshut-off plate, and means for spacing said supplemental plate from theshut-ofi late.

9 10. A shut-off blending plate for a camera adapted for movementtransversely of said camera, a supplemental blending plate connected atone end to said shut-off plate and yieldably supported thereon, andmeans for spacing said supplemental plate at its free end from theshut-off plate.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SELEST E. MOINE. [ms] Witnesses:

J. P. HIVEKABER, R. G. PORTER.

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Washington, D. G.

